OS Package Request: wkhtmltopdf [154643062]

Infeasible

Feature Request

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Description

re...@el-tramo.be

created issue #1

Apr 22, 2020 11:16AM

Ubuntu Package name: wkhtmltopdf

Your use case: generating PDFs from HTML (e.g. using 'wkhtmltopdf' node.js package).

Comments

kn...@google.com <kn...@google.com> Apr 22, 2020 12:27PM

Assigned to kn...@google.com.

kn...@google.com <kn...@google.com> #2Apr 22, 2020 06:25PM

Hello,

Thanks for bringing this to our notice! A feature request for the same has been forwarded to the App Engine Product Engineering Team so that they may evaluate it. However, please note that there is no ETA or guarantee of implementation for this. Rest assured, we’ll keep you updated on every update we receive from the team. All communication regarding this feature request is to be done here.

re...@el-tramo.be <re...@el-tramo.be> #3Apr 22, 2020 07:03PM

Hey there, I noticed that Go 1.20 runtime is suffering the same fate here. I'd be happy to submit a patch to remove ffmpeg from the documented system packages if this is not a priority to fix :)

kn...@google.com <kn...@google.com> #4Apr 23, 2020 04:22PM

Reassigned to gc...@google.com.

Thanks for the clarification. I have forwarded your feature request to the Cloud App Engine product team to be evaluated. However, there is no guarantee of the implementation or ETA for this feature at this time. All further updates should occur on this thread.

kn...@google.com <kn...@google.com> #5May 15, 2020 05:03PM

Status: Won't Fix (Infeasible)

The product team noted that the wkhtmltopdf package is not officially supported by Ubuntu. However, generating PDFs should be achievable by using Puppeteer which the Node runtime already supports [1].

So I go ahead and close this feature request but feel free to raise another ticket if this doesn't fit your need and give us more detail on your usecase.

[1]

https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/blob/v3.0.2/docs/api.md#pagepdfoptions

Issue 154643062